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progenies

progenies is the plural of progeny.

Meaning of progeny

Noun

progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)

  1. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
    • I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
  2. (obsolete, uncountable) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
    • Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  3. (countable, figuratively) A result of a creative effort.
    • His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

Questions about progenies

What is progenies the plural of?
Progenies is the plural of progeny.

Words near progenies in the dictionary

  1. progeneration
  2. progenerations
  3. progenerative
  4. progenesis
  5. progenetic
  6. progenies
  7. progenital
  8. progenitally
  9. progenitive
  10. progenitiveness
  11. progenitor

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